Barrel-header.



L. WEINMAN.

BARREL HEADER. APPLICATION FILED APE.6,1910.

969,430, Patented Sept. 6,1910,

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LOUIS WEINMAN, OF ATCHISON, KANSAS.

BARREL-HEADER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 6, 1910.

Application filed April 6, 1910. Serial No. 553,787.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS VEINMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Atchison, in the county of Atchison and State of Kansas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel-Headers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the art of coopering and has particularreference to an improvement in barrel-heading devices.

To this end the invention has in view an improvementapplicable to theold and regular form of barrel headers, and comprises means formaterially strengthening and reinforcing the entire structure, while atthe same time positively holding the clamp piece against rotation duringthe pressing down operation, thus preventing the swivel joint betweenthe clamping screw and the clamp piece from working loose.

Vith these and other objects in view, which will readily appear to thosefamiliar with this art as the nature of the invention is betterunderstood, the same consists in the novel construction and arrangementof parts hereinafter described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,Figure l is a side elevation, partly insection, of a barrel-heading device embodying the im provementcontemplated by the present invention. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional viewon the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Like references designate corresponding parts in the two figures of thedrawing.

The barrel-heading device proper includes in its organization asupporting frame essentially consisting of a main transverse frame-bar land the opposite side holding legs 2 rigidly connected at one end, as at3, respectively to opposite ends of the frame bar 1, and provided attheir free ends with the engaging hooks 4 to engage the barrel beingheaded.

Associated with the supporting frame is a vertically movable clamp-piece5, usually in the form of a cross-bar, and to the central part of whichclamp-piece the clamping screw 6 has a swiveled or equivalent connectionas at 7, this usually being in the form of a ball and socket joint, asshown. The clamping screw 6 turns in the nut 8 fitted in the frame bar 1and carried by the nutplate 9 bolted or otherwise fastened to one sideof the frame bar, and the upper end of the clamping screw carries theusual crossbar handle 10.

According to the present invention, a pair of brace rods 11, 11 isassociated with the screw 6 and the clamp-piece 5. These rods arearranged respectively upon opposite sides of the screw 6 in spacedparallel relation thereto, slidably work through guide openings 12 inthe frame-bar 1, and have their lower ends bolted or otherwise suitablysecured as at 13 to the clamp-piece 5 upon opposite sides of the swiveljoint 7. The upper ends of the rods 11 are connected as at 14 todiametrically opposite portions of a supporting plate 15 having a swivelconnection as at- 16 with the clamping screw near the upper end thereof.It will thus be seen that the said brace rods 11 strengthen andreinforce the entire structure and at the same time positively hold theclamp piece against rotation during the pressing down operation.

In a barrel-heading device, the supporting frame having a frame-barcarrying a nut, the vertically movable clamp piece, a clamp ing screwworking through said nut and swiveled to the clamp-piece, a supportingplate having a swiveled connection with the clamp-screw, and a pair ofbrace rods connected with said supporting plate at one end and at theirother ends rigidly connected with the clamp-piece upon opposite sides ofthe swivel connection between the same and the screw, said brace rodsslidably working through the frame-bar.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

LOUIS WEINMAN.

Witnesses:

Z. E. JAoKsoN, Cone N. TERRY.

